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I Can Smell the Leaves

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I Can Smell the Leaves Lyrics

autumn is here
i can smell the leaves
little by little it gets colder

take the bus downtown
ride a bike
to the park
with your trip

people everywhere
immediate processors
writing books and climbing stairs

just a few hours
the sun goes down
all the people hanging around go back home
or stay downtown

autumn is here
i can smell the leaves
the color of fire
i look at the trees grow older

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weezerific:cutlery On Apr 15, 2004

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by TBeasley

20y ago

It's like an old feeling remembered all at once- the smell of the season, the memories of the seaosn. The feeling. I always picture taking the bus on a cold day with friends, heading home but glad to be alive. It's a very good song.

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Cover art for I Can Smell the Leaves lyrics by Olivia Tremor Control, The

by Wearygigapet

17y ago

One of the prettiest songs any band from the Elephant 6 collective ever devised.

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